Germany to Take in Gitmo Terrorists,
but Not Help Abused Slaves of Arab Sheikhs

by Dr. Sami Alrabaa

21 Apr, 2009

Some students at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany are human
rights activists. As students of “Arab Sociology” they chose a
project through which they wanted to investigate how petrodollar
Arabs ill-treat their maids.

They checked with some first-class hotels and found “treasure
troves” of abuse. Daniel, one of those students, said, “It was not
difficult to find cases of abuse and slavery by petrodollar Arab
tourists.”

Maids of petrodollar tourists are usually from the Philippines or
India. The German students met some of them in hotel lobbies. Daniel
spoke to one of them – Corazon, a trained school teacher back in the
Philippines. She works as a maid for a Saudi Prince by the name
“Mit’eb Bin Faisal Al Saud.”

As Corazon was supervising the kids of the Prince in the lobby,
Daniel approached her and engaged her in small talk. She was very
happy to be spoken to by a polite German.

Daniel learned that Corazon works for 24 hours a day and does not
get one single day off. She has been working for the Saudi family
for two years. Over these years she received only $ 300, which she
sent to her family back in Mindanao. “This is one third of the sum
the Prince pays for one single night in the hotel. I’m supposed to
get $90 per month, but I have not.” Corazon said with tears in her
eyes. “It is hell. I want to see my children,” she gasped.

Daniel met Corazon several times. She also told him that the
“madam,” one of the Prince’s wives – he has four of them – beats her
if she is not “quick” enough. “I don’t understand the world. She is
religious and prays five times a day and yet she severely beats me
with her shoes. She never says, ‘Thank you.’ What kind of a
religious person is this?”

Corazon also told Daniel that the Prince sends his wife away for
shopping with the children. “Then he plays pornographic movies and
forces me to have sex with him and act like those women in the
movie. This is disgusting. By the way, he is also religious and
prays five times a day.”

Corazon added, “I feel like a slave, a prostitute, but for free.
They treat me like a slave. I asked the Prince and his wife to fire
me and let me go home, even without money. I don’t want their money.
I’m yearning to see me three children and husband. I cry every day.
I have not seen them for two years. The Prince confiscated my
passport and I cannot leave without it. I contacted my embassy in
Riyadh, but they told me, I cannot leave without my passport. The
personnel at the Philippine embassy in Saudi Arabia are corrupt.
They get enough money from the Saudis to hush up cases like mine.
And I don’t have money to bribe them.”

Corazon appealed to Daniel to help her. She wanted to seek asylum
in Germany. Daniel discussed Corazon’s case with his colleagues, and
all decided to help her. They went to the nearest police station in
Berlin and talked to the officer in charge. He told them, “It is a
difficult case. We had several cases like this in the past. Saudi
princes usually carry diplomatic passports and enjoy immunity, and
managed to get away with their abuse of their maids. You can try it.
You can help the girl apply for asylum. But I’m telling you, you’ll
fail. And she will also fail to get asylum.”

Daniel was determined to help Corazon. On December 20, 2008, as
the Prince and his wife were out shopping, Corazon left the hotel in
Daniel’s car. He drove her to the same police station and helped her
fill out an asylum form.

About three hours later, as the Prince and his wife arrived in
the hotel and did not find Corazon, they alerted the Saudi Embassy.
The Saudi ambassador – accompanied by Saudi security men and a
German lawyer – asked the hotel’s top manager to review all
movements around the hotel recorded by security cameras installed
everywhere in and around the hotel. Suddenly they saw Corazon
entering a car. The car number was jotted down and all drove to the
nearest police station to file a kidnapping case against the owner
of the car.

The Saudi Embassy’s lawyer urged the police to pursue the case
and drive them to the residence of the “Kidnapper.” The police had
no other choice. They drove to where Daniel was residing, in a
student’s flat in Berlin.

To make a long story short, the police found Corazon in that
flat. The Saudi Ambassador snatched her and she was driven back to
the hotel. Daniel was arrested and accused of kidnapping Corazon.
Corazon was so intimidated and scared that she did not utter a word.
For the Saudis and the police that was a “happy ending.”

Christopher, a friend who works for both the Ministry of Home
Affairs and Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a security man, told me
the German government issued instructions to law enforcement on how
to avoid diplomatic crises with the Saudis within the current
economic and financial crisis. “The West needs the Saudi
petrodollars.” Christopher said.

Tim, another German student doing a similar project, discovered
another case of abuse. This time it is a Kuwaiti, a former member of
parliament and a filthy rich businessman who has several
supermarkets in Kuwait and Lebanon. His name is Khaled Bin Sultan Al
Issa.

When Tim mentioned his name, I said, “I think I know the man.” I
showed him a picture of Mr. Al Issa. Tim said, “It’s him.”

Although he is a vociferous Islamist in parliament and in the
Kuwaiti society at large, he imports alcohol and pork from Germany
for his outlets in Lebanon. This was confirmed by a German business
partner.

Disguised as business people seeking partners in Kuwait, Tim and
Mathias went to the Chamber of Industry and Trade in Hamburg. There
they received a list of business partners in Kuwait. Al Issa’s name
was also on the list.

Tim and his colleague Mathias observed Al Issa in the hotel
lobby. One day they engaged him in small talk and invited him to a
night club. He welcomed the idea. In the night club he drank alcohol
and danced wildly.

This is not the same Al Issa who writes in Kuwaiti newspapers
urging the state to introduce Shari’a. But he is the same as many
other radical Muslims who do not practice what they preach. In
public they preach “piety” and hatred against the infidels, but
privately they commit the same sins they condemn, as well as exploit
people.

In Hamburg, Al Issa resided in a first-class hotel (September
12-20, 2008) with two of his wives and a maid from the Philippines,
Gloria.

Gloria told Tim a similar appalling experience like Corazon. She
has been working for Al Issa for more than three years and received
only $500, although according to her contract she is supposed to get
$90 a month. Her pay has always been postponed. Besides, she is
often sexually abused by Mr. Al Issa.

Gloria managed with the help of Tim to submit an asylum
application and stay in Hamburg. Four months later her application
was rejected and she was deported back to Kuwait, to her employer Al
Issa, “To hell,” as she later wrote to Tim.

Al Issa’s German lawyer had filed charges against Gloria alleging
that she was recruited by a night club in St. Pauli as a prostitute.
Further, “There was no justification whatsoever for granting her
asylum. She is not persecuted in her home country, the Philippines.”
The police told Tim.

“But why did you deport her to Kuwait and not to the
Philippines?” asked Tim angrily. The police said, “No comment!” Then
Tim shouted, “Stop supporting slavery!”

Tim was also warned by Al Issa’s lawyer not to contact the media.
He and Daniel contacted me and wanted me to publicize the above
cases of abuse.

Tim wrote to several members of the Bundestag (parliament), but
he received either no reply, or “sorry” replies.

Khaled Bin Sultan Al Issa

German politics, particularly as far as human rights are
concerned, are hypocritical. For example, while Frank Walter
Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, declared several times that
Germany is ready to welcome Guantanamo detainees/terrorists, German
authorities reject asylum seekers who really deserve refuge and
protection.

Abusers of human rights are welcome in Germany but not their
victims. German politicians and mainstream media were full of praise
to the sheikhs of Abu Dhabi for supporting Mercedes with $2 billion
in the current economic and financial crisis. And negotiations are
under way to attract Saudi and Qatari investors to salvage bankrupt
German car companies like Opel.

With their billions of petrodollars the Arab sheikhs have so far
succeeded in silencing critics of the Saudi regime and the other
Emirates at the Persian Gulf. Although the whole world is aware of
the fact that Saudi Arabia funds and supports spreading Wahhabi
Islam, which incites to hatred and violence against non-Muslims and
non-Sunnis across the world, and treats its foreign workers as
slaves, business as usual for the West – including Germany –
obviously comes first, not human rights.

Think of Tony Blair who stopped a corruption case in an arms deal
(of $20 billion) with Saudi Arabia, in which Prince Bandar Bin
Sultan was involved. Blair argued, prosecuting the case would
jeopardize the British arms industry and thousands of jobs.

Jürgen Möllemann, former chairman of the German Free Democratic
Party, committed suicide in 2003 as his secrete accounts were
discovered in Switzerland. Some of the money stored in these
accounts came from the Saudis. In my presence, as I was translating
for him in Riyadh in 1995, he received from Prince Salman, the
governor of Riyadh, a check of $40 million.

My book Die Tyrannei der tausend Prinzen (The Tyranny of Thousand
Princes) was deliberately ignored by the German mainstream media
under the pressure of Möllemann and his retainers.

Money comes and goes, but lack of ethics and hypocrisy remain
part of the legacy of those who practice them. For some politicians,
political survival transcends political correctness.

Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-Muslim, is a sociology professor and an Arab/Muslim
culture specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait
University, King Saud University, and Michigan State University.